Going To Pieces

Author : Adam Rockoff
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786491922
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Going to Pieces written by Adam Rockoff and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2016-03-04 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Carpenter’s Halloween, released on October 25, 1978, marked the beginning of the horror film’s most colorful, controversial, and successful offshoot—the slasher film. Loved by fans and reviled by critics for its iconic psychopaths, gory special effects, brainless teenagers in peril, and more than a bit of soft-core sex, the slasher film secured its legacy as a cultural phenomenon and continues to be popular today. This work traces the evolution of the slasher film from 1978 when it was a fledgling genre, through the early 1980s when it was one of the most profitable and prolific genres in Hollywood, on to its decline in popularity around 1986. An introduction provides a brief history of the Grand Guignol, the pre-cinema forerunner of the slasher film, films such as Psycho and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and cinematic trends that gave rise to the slasher film. Also explained are the slasher film’s characteristics, conventions, and cinematic devices, such as the “final girl,” the omnipotent killer, the relationship between sex and death, the significant date or setting, and the point-of-view of the killer. The chapters that follow are devoted to the years 1978 through 1986 and analyze significant films from each year. The Toolbox Murders, When a Stranger Calls, the Friday the 13th movies, My Bloody Valentine, The Slumber Party Massacre, Psycho II, and April Fool’s Day are among those analyzed. The late 90s resurrection of slasher films, as seen in Scream and I Know What You Did Last Summer, is also explored, as well as the future direction of slasher films.

Author : Mark Epstein, M.D.
Publisher : Harmony
ISBN 13 : 0307830098
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Going to Pieces Without Falling Apart written by Mark Epstein, M.D. and published by Harmony. This book was released on 2013-04-17 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intimate guide to self-acceptance and discovery that offers a Buddhist perspective on wholeness within the framework of a Western understanding of self. For decades, Western psychology has promised fulfillment through building and strengthening the ego. We are taught that the ideal is a strong, individuated self, constructed and reinforced over a lifetime. But Buddhist psychiatrist Mark Epstein has found a different way. Going to Pieces Without Falling Apart shows us that happiness doesn't come from any kind of acquisitiveness, be it material or psychological. Happiness comes from letting go. Weaving together the accumulated wisdom of his two worlds--Buddhism and Western psychotherapy—Epstein shows how "the happiness that we seek depends on our ability to balance the ego's need to do with our inherent capacity to be." He encourages us to relax the ever-vigilant mind in order to experience the freedom that comes only from relinquishing control. Drawing on events in his own life and stories from his patients, Going to Pieces Without Falling Apart teaches us that only by letting go can we start on the path to a more peaceful and spiritually satisfying life.

Author : Margot McDonnell
Publisher : Delacorte Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 038573557X
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Torn to Pieces written by Margot McDonnell and published by Delacorte Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2010-11-09 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When her mother disappears during a business trip, seventeen-year-old Anne discovers that her family harbors many dark secrets.

Author : Leddy Harper
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781535038447
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Falling to Pieces written by Leddy Harper and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-07-17 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do you repair a broken life? Home is a dark place of anguish and pain for seventeen-year-old Bree Jacobs, forced to endure emotional and physical torment daily at the hands of a violently unstable mother. Bree's only escape is high school, particularly her history class taught by young, handsome, kind and caring Axel Taylor. Mr. Taylor becomes Bree's dearest friend, a sympathetic ear and a shoulder to cry on, and soon their shared affection grows into something greater. But by reaching out to protect her-to mend her breaks and soothe her wounds-Axel has crossed a dangerous line, resulting in two shattered lives instead of just one. Six years later, they will meet again: Bree, still battling the demons that continue to possess her, and Axel, reduced to taking work as a substitute teacher wherever he can find it. Once again he will feel compelled to rescue her. But this time it will be different, because now the yearnings of a loving heart won't be silenced by suspicious minds. And now there's more than one life that desperately needs saving.

Author : Mary Forsberg Weiland
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061959421
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fall to Pieces written by Mary Forsberg Weiland and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-11-10 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fall to Pieces is a beautifully written, visceral, roller coaster ride inside bipolar disorder, rock ’n’ roll, celebrity culture, and the world of modeling. Mary Forsberg Weiland, ex-wife of the late Scott Weiland, front man for Stone Temple Pilots and Velvet Revolver, tells a harrowing true story of depression, drug addiction, and mental illness with candor and, often, humor. Co-written with veteran journalist Larkin Warren, Fall to Pieces is a blistering, eye-opening memoir of Hollywood meltdown in the bestselling vein of Tatum O’Neal’s A Paper Life and Valerie Bertinelli’s Losing It.

Author : Jim Harper
Publisher : Headpress
ISBN 13 : 9781900486392
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Legacy of Blood written by Jim Harper and published by Headpress. This book was released on 2004 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combining in-depth analysis with over 200 film reviews, 'Legacy of Blood' is a comprehensive examination of the slasher movie and its conventions to date, from 'Halloweeen' to 'Scream' and beyond.

Author : Rebecca Rode
Publisher : Cedar Fort Publishing & Media
ISBN 13 : 146210407X
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How to Have Peace: When You're Falling to Pieces written by Rebecca Rode and published by Cedar Fort Publishing & Media. This book was released on 2023-02-02 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can I have inner peace as a mother when I feel so stressed and scattered? For mothers who feel they are constantly juggling multiple demands, How to Have Peace When You're Falling to Pieces is packed with uplifting stories, poems, quotes, and scriptures that instill fresh perspective on the work of a mother.

Author : Barbara Benson Keith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780978968830
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book I Love You to Pieces! written by Barbara Benson Keith and published by . This book was released on 2014-07-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Expresses the love between animals and their babies using mosaic artwork illustrations.

Author : Suzanne Kamata
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807000304
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Love You to Pieces written by Suzanne Kamata and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2008-05-01 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first collection of literary writing on raising a child with special needs, Love You to Pieces features families coping with autism, deafness, muscular dystrophy, Down syndrome and more. Here, poets, memoirists, and fiction writers paint beautiful, wrenchingly honest portraits of caring for their children, laying bare the moments of rage, disappointment, and guilt that can color their relationships. Parent-child communication can be a challenge at the best of times, but in this collection we witness the struggles and triumphs of those who speak their own language-or don't speak at all-and those who love them deeply.

Author : Kent Byron Armstrong
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476606552
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Slasher Films written by Kent Byron Armstrong and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-06-14 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The slasher film genre got its start in the early 1960s with filmmakers such as Alfred Hitchcock Psycho and Michael Powell Peeping Tom making provocative mainstream films, but it is most associated with the late 1970s and the releases of Halloween and Friday the 13th. They have been frightening and thrilling audiences ever since with their bloody scenes and crazed killers. Over 250 slasher films are presented in this work, each with major cast and production credits, a plot synopsis, and a short critique; interesting production notes are often provided. Some of the films covered include Alice, Sweet Alice, American Psycho, The Burning, Cherry Falls, Curtains, Deep Red, Frenzy, Hide and Go Shriek, Maniac, Prom Night, Scream, Sleepaway Camp, Slumber Party Massacre, and The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. Filmographies are provided for slasher directors, actors, writers, and composers.